On a fourth order conformal invariant

2020/02/14 by Ratzkin, Jesse
#Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2002.05939

Abstract

In this note we prove that a fourth order conformal invariant on the product of a circle with an (n-1)-dimensional sphere can be arbitrarily close to that of the n-dimensional sphere, generalizing a result of Schoen about the classical Yamabe invariant.

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